Comments on: CSS Sprite Generator Version 2.0 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/06/24/css-sprite-generator-version-20/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:10:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Matthias Willerich http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/06/24/css-sprite-generator-version-20/#comment-64540 Matthias Willerich Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:57:34 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/?p=376#comment-64540 Ha, not wanting to leave your questions unanswered: I was actually considering to build a tool like yours last week (as your PR didn't reach me until now), combined with a TTF-to-png renderer, as I have all the pieces lying around anyway. But rendering the images and sending them to an API or get it done via CLI sounds EVEN better, because then I don't have to build it, but only do the integration. Hurray! To avoid relying on availability, I'd probably prefer CLI and run it myself. Man, this is like an early Christmas here. All wishes and gifts! Ha,
not wanting to leave your questions unanswered: I was actually considering to build a tool like yours last week (as your PR didn’t reach me until now), combined with a TTF-to-png renderer, as I have all the pieces lying around anyway. But rendering the images and sending them to an API or get it done via CLI sounds EVEN better, because then I don’t have to build it, but only do the integration. Hurray! To avoid relying on availability, I’d probably prefer CLI and run it myself. Man, this is like an early Christmas here. All wishes and gifts!

]]> By: Matthias Willerich http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/06/24/css-sprite-generator-version-20/#comment-64539 Matthias Willerich Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:52:20 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/?p=376#comment-64539 I've seen sprites cropping up everywhere in the last year or so, and have been using the simple hover-state version for quite a while. Now, I seem to remember that there used to be issues with pixel-positioning background images, but for the hell of it I can't remember when it stopped, or if it was simply my limited skillset of the past (think 2003 and earlier). IE6 seems fine wherever I test it, and I doubt I was ever very busy testing in Opera, so I wouldn't know that. As I don't see it on the website-performance site, do you happen to remember any brokenness with this technology in the dark web past? I'm thinking Mac IE 5.2 here, or Netscape 7(before 7.2, or or...)? Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong? Can you put my doubts to rest? I’ve seen sprites cropping up everywhere in the last year or so, and have been using the simple hover-state version for quite a while.

Now, I seem to remember that there used to be issues with pixel-positioning background images, but for the hell of it I can’t remember when it stopped, or if it was simply my limited skillset of the past (think 2003 and earlier). IE6 seems fine wherever I test it, and I doubt I was ever very busy testing in Opera, so I wouldn’t know that.

As I don’t see it on the website-performance site, do you happen to remember any brokenness with this technology in the dark web past? I’m thinking Mac IE 5.2 here, or Netscape 7(before 7.2, or or…)? Maybe I’m just remembering it wrong? Can you put my doubts to rest?

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